The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded
Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth
JP Donleavy, the artist: mad planets and strange fish
Painting was his first love, and the author allegedly wrote The Ginger Man in a pique after his work received a lukewarm reception
A race against time in a macabre labyrinth
Kathlyn O’Brien speculates on identity and mortality in ‘Altered Light’, while Michael Beirne creates strange, hallucinatory visions of his own inner world in ‘Sahasrara’
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Brian Maguire’s paintings try to address the experiences of society’s outsiders
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The German artist Vera Klute does not take a cosy view of motherhood and family
Visual art: Sabine Mac Mahon finds a cure for 1916 fatigue
Mac Mahon’s exhibition invites us to examine the construction of cultural myths both old and modern
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Three artists at Hillsboro share a love for a great Italian tradition; and Catherine Barron throws herself into her work
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